forever, other presidents said everyone should pay their part. some say the mechanisms of nato are out of date and should be revisited but donald trump agreed nato is relevant if not foreign and nato agreed that we have got a u.s. president who is going to take us to task, better not get under his skin. the government is full of potential briefers, the state department is full of experts. there is real concern this is a president subject to flattery wanting a close personal relationship after every encounter, that he could agree to things that he shouldn t. well, he is very transactional on the one hand. on the other hand he is susceptible to flattery and personal relationship. those two have nothing to do with policy. he feels if he can ingratiate himself with people, the saudis are going to do that, the israelis have already done it. the pope will do it in order to modulate some of the things that trump does i m sure the pope is
rick, a tougher question. the government is full of potential briefers. the state department is full of experts. there is real concern this is a president subject to flattery wanting a close personal relationship after every encounter, that he could agree to things that he shouldn t. well, he is very transactional on the one hand. on the other hand he is susceptible to flattery and personal relationship. those two have nothing to do with policy. he feels if he can ingratiate himself with people, those people are going to figure out how to do that with him. and by the way, the saudis are going to do it. the israelis have already done it. the pope will do it in order to modulate some of the things that trump does i m sure the pope is aghast at. to quote rick stengel, what could go wrong. gentlemen thank you for a great conversation tonight. ali velshi and rick stengel. up next, when generals are pulled into politics on live television. how h.r. mcmaster became the
and donald trump started his whole conversation about nato during the campaign was how nobody else pays their way. the u.s. is done with paying for all of this. obsolete. it s objecto obsolete. he moved his messaging. mike pence went and visited with nato and said we are committed on nato. we are going to keep going on nato, but everybody should be paying their part. but this has been going on forever, other presidents said everyone should pay their part. some say the mechanisms of nato are out of date and should be revisited but donald trump agreed nato is relevant if not foreign and nato agreed that we have got a u.s. president who is going to take us to task, better not get under his skin. the government is full of potential briefers, the state department is full of experts. there is real concern this is a president subject to flattery wanting a close personal relationship after every encounter, that he could agree to things that he shouldn t. well, he is very transactional